Abstract

A rigorous and relevant book on mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring for students and practitioners of finance.

The key features of this work are:

- It covers the entire spectrum of activities in a typical merger transaction - starting from searching for candidates to closing the deal.

- Topics discussed include rationale for diversification via acquisition, searching for acquisitions, valuation of publicly and privately held companies, design of consideration in acquisitions, crossborder acquistions and empirial data on mergers.